Lets get it straight out right away; Live And Let Die
is a confused mish-mash of Bond meets Shaft. It doesn't know what it wants
to be or where it wants to go and the result is terrible.
The CIA, in both Rosie Carver and Felix Leiter, is shown to
be incompetant. The action is dire - the car chase is a direct sequal to that
from Diamonds Are Forever, but with nothing new to offer except cop
car upon cop car being wrecked it plays it too slapstick. Bad enough the first
time we saw it, but now completely dull.
Is there anything worth rescuing from this mess? Well, Jane
Seymour is good as Solitaire, but her lines are often poorly thought out. And
the sequence in Bond's flat and the Italian agent are amusing, although it
seems unlikely that M and Moneypenny should visit him at home. Apart from that
the answer is a big, fat, NO!
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Roger
Moore
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James
Bond
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Yaphet
Kotto
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Kananga/Mr.
Big
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Jane Seymour
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Solitaire
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Clifton
James
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Sheriff
J.W. Pepper
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Julius
Harris
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Tee Hee
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Geoffrey
Holder
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Baron
Samedi
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David
Hedison
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Felix
Leiter
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Bernard
Lee
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M
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Lois Maxwell
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Miss Moneypenny
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Director
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Guy Hamilton
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Screenplay
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Tom Mankiewicz
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